Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Lassman sought to suggest that this offence was aimed solely at hacking , and hacking , which is a word that finds no place in the Act , he says , means using one computer to access another . |
| 2 | In 1952 , in an article entitled ‘ Discourse Analysis ’ , he analysed an advertisement for hair tonic — from which he coyly omitted the brand name — and set about searching for grammatical rules to explain why one sentence followed another . |
| 3 | Yet before we do so , it would be as well to see just how far formal , purely linguistic rules can go in accounting for the way one sentence succeeds another . |
| 4 | You 'd spend one hour boning all his big bones they he 'd already took the joints off and your job was to bone it right to the bone , which he sold separately , and today you would call minced beef . |
| 5 | In any event , unlike the autumn of 1557 , the time was now certainly ripe for the peculiar inspiration of John Knox , the man who , in the words of the English diplomat Randolph , ‘ is able in one hour to put more life into us than five hundred trumpets continually blustering in our ears ’ , and who would later be described by the same diplomat in 1561 , a week after Mary 's return to Scotland , as the preacher who ‘ thundereth out of the pulpit … he ruleth the roast , and of him all men stand in fear ’ . |
| 6 | One campaigner said this was the first in a series of activities to support the coal industry . |
| 7 | one blacksmith does that yard , they l or two , two do the yards now , cos there 's a lot of . |
| 8 | Marietta , Georgia-based , Maxtech Computer Technologies Inc has launched , Double Vision , remote control software for Intel Corp iAPX-86 Unix platforms : Double Vision allows one user to control another user 's terminal — both screens look identical to the user and the terminal 's keyboards are interchangeable . |
| 9 | Revolution is insurrection , an act of violence by which one caste overthrows another . |
| 10 | No on when it came down the bag missed the hanger instead of one bit going each side of the hanger so that the clothes were inside |
| 11 | Imitation is another ; this is when one coin imitates another datable coin or other artefact , or vice versa , as in the case of some early Roman coins which were imitated on pottery that can be independently dated to 285–265BC . |
| 12 | The style and tone of this appendix are quite astonishing ; fortunately , readers of this book and of Early music will be aware that for one writer to read another 's work insufficiently carefully to understand it , to attribute to him ideas he does not hold , and then to subject them to sarcasm and ridicule is no way to conduct academic debate , and about these four pages the present writer — the recipient of this attention — needs say no more . |
| 13 | In the Bible we rarely possess two or more parallel documents where we can see how one writer used another as his source . |
| 14 | One watch succeeded another through the day , though how the rabbits judged the passing of the time is something that civilized human beings have lost the power to feel . |
| 15 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
| 16 | If in one election alter another considerable numbers of electors supporting the CDU/CSU or the SPD with their first votes had not switched their second votes to the FOP its representation in the Bundestag could have been reduced to insignificance or vanished altogether . |
| 17 | As one course followed another we began to wonder whether the meal would ever end . |
| 18 | ‘ One fan hitched all the way here , and this is what he gets . |
| 19 | In 1976 at Foxboro ‘ one fan stole another 's wheelchair , thirty were hospitalized , another stabbed . |
| 20 | With only one lorry and one car to supply all the needs of the two dozen overseas staff there was no way to escape other people or one 's own negative traits which could become glaringly obvious living in such confined quarters . |
| 21 | THE only civilian witness to the events surrounding the deaths of two teenage joyriders in Northern Ireland claimed yesterday he saw one soldier attack another . |
| 22 | Even if you rarely stretch the G 's exceptional 2.9-ton towing limit , or test the new drivetrain which keeps you mobile even if only one wheel has any grip , at least you can savour the high , commanding view every time you slip behind the wheel . |
| 23 | As the Nehru Cup showed , making each team play the others once each makes it difficult for one side to win most of their matches . |
| 24 | Instead of one side doing all their batting in one go and setting a target for the other side to beat , baseball 's innings are broken up into bits , with each side batting in turn until nine innings have been completed . |
| 25 | One study used this approach to handle design decisions within an assembly of parts described by a three-dimensional wireframe modeller ( see Figures 2.7 and 2.8 ) . |
| 26 | One hymn expresses this vision of a transformed humanity in this way : |
| 27 | As a speaker switches from animating one persona to animate another , the effect at the linguistic level may , for a bilingual speaker , be a code switch . |
| 28 | An example of one attempt to translate this idea into reality is provided by the Israeli kibbutzim system . |
| 29 | The ‘ RPI — x ’ formula is one attempt to solve this problem . |
| 30 | Then the man put his hand on the horse 's shoulder and began to scratch , as one horse nuzzles another when they have decided to be friends . |